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Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Title
Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Author
Dobbs, Olivia, Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Sex role, Nineteenth century, Women in education
Description
During the late nineteenth century, British women received better education, especially at the university level. In particular, the University of Cambridge opened two women’s colleges, Girton College in 1869 and Newnham College in 1871. The establ...
Moving subjects : directions and methodological challenges in the historical study of migrant children and youth
Title
Moving subjects : directions and methodological challenges in the historical study of migrant children and youth
Author
Fratantuono, Ella, Martin, Alissa
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Immigrants, Youth
Description
Over the last decade and a half, scholars have demonstrated increased interest in studying the history of young people, as signalled by an expanding presence of relevant societies and journals. Though children and young people comprise a significa...
Seeking new landscapes : one woman's photographic journey in April 1931 from Germany to the Middle East
Title
Seeking new landscapes : one woman's photographic journey in April 1931 from Germany to the Middle East
Author
Gibson, Shimon
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Photography of women, Women photographers, Photography--Archive applications
Description
It is 1931 and Lily Waldthausen is from an affluent German family who sets out with her husband and children on a cruise that will take them along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea towards the Middle East. Lily has a professional camera to indulg...
Slavery and African American irreligion
Title
Slavery and African American irreligion
Author
Cameron, Christopher
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
African Americans--Religion, Enslaved persons
Description
In his influential 1835 work Slavery, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing noted of southern slaves: “Of all the races of men, the African is the mildest and most susceptible of attachment. He loves, where the European would hate. He watches...
The impact of educational reforms on Russian women from 1850-1900 : obtaining a higher education with the help of socialism
Title
The impact of educational reforms on Russian women from 1850-1900 : obtaining a higher education with the help of socialism
Author
Litchfield, Amber
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Education, Nihilism, Women's rights, Women in education, Russia
Description
Restrictive governments breed revolutionaries, history has shown this much. Nineteenth-century Imperial Russia is marked by a time of reforms and liberations. The tsars' Alexander I, Nicholas I, and Alexander II mismanaged the reforms during this ...